A Nigerian
driver has met an untimely death after suspected cultists stormed his house and
executed him in shocking style.
The late
Samuel Irabor
A
78-year-old man, Pa Daniel Irabor, has related how he pleaded with the killer
of his son, Samuel,
to kill him instead of his son, PM News has reported.
The man's
son, 41-year-old Samuel Irabor, was killed by two gunmen at about 11am last
Thursday at his residence at house 9, Eguavoen Lane, off Odeh Street, Upper
Siluko Road, Ogida, Benin City, capital of Edo State.
He was a
commercial bus driver and was washing clothes at the back of his house when his
assailants attacked and opened fire on him.
It was
gathered that the deceased​ ran into the house with the bullet wounds​, hid
under his mother’s bed as the gunmen chased, dragged and shot him the second
time again.
“When I
heard the first gunshot I ran out of my palour, I saw blood stain in my
passage. Thanks, a young man with a short gun ran into my passage, I stood in
the door to my wife’s room.
“I begged
the gunman to just kill me and leave my son, he pushed me away from the door,
dragged Samuel who was bleeding and shot him again.
“Then,
another boy with a gun entered, he said: ‘you sure say he don die?’ I told him
go and check whether he is still breathing, they left,” the bereaved
septuagenarian related to journalists.
The bereaved
father who said he could not say who was behind his son’s murder, however
disclosed that the deceased had a quarrel with a boy he could not give his name
at Ring Road, about two months ago.
It was
gathered that the lifeless body of the victim was later taken to an undisclosed
hospital mortuary by operatives of Ogida Police Division.
The
Spokesman of Edo Police Command, DSP Moses Nkombe, who confirmed the killing,
said it was cult related and called for information that would assist in
tracking down the perpetrators.
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